Stephen Karam Quotes

There's a play that Chekhov wrote called 'Uncle Vanya,' and I when I was in school, I played Sonya, and sometimes people ask me if there was ever a role I could play again, that's definitely the role I would play again: Sonya in 'Uncle Vanya.'

Streetcar is a most wonderful, wonderful play.

I remember thinking, when I was playing Hedda Gabler, that several sequences of the play were utterly absurd.

There is a real affection for these human beings on these stage that O'Neill really had. Out of that affection comes a lot of humor, which is unexpected when you think of 'The Iceman Cometh.'

I always thought Uncle Vanya could be a stoned masterpiece.

Inherit the Wind is a wonderful play, and I was in the original with Paul Muni.

'The Painkiller' is a remarkable play.

As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

I just did a play in New York which has been my best experience that I've had for maybe ever. It was Paul Weitz's play called Privilege and I was in New York for three months.

I've played Lear three times, I would love to do it again.

The first role I played was Madame Ranevsky in 'The Cherry Orchard.'

I consider that my best performance ever was as Peer Gynt.

I'd like to play something classical. I'm in the Strindberg society, and we do readings of Strindberg plays. I'd love to do Nora in 'A Doll's House.' And Chekhov. I have been working back to back on what I call 'regular jobs,' so it's hard to do plays.

I'm dying to do a Sam Shepard play. 'Curse of the Starving Class,' 'Buried Child,' 'True West,' 'Cowboy Mouth,' 'Fool for Love' - I'll do any of them.

I would play just about any role, male or female, in the Anton Chekov play 'The Cherry Orchard,' which I love.

I'd like to one day play Amanda, the mother, in The Glass Menagerie.

You do develop a taste as an actress: Chekhov, Ayckbourn: it's the combination of comedy and human drama. I would never want to do anything without comedy.

Kellie Overbey gave me this play called 'Girl Talk.' I read it and totally fell in love with the characters. I told her she had to let me direct it and put Marcia DeBonis in it.

When I started in the theater, I'd do plays by Shakespeare or Ibsen or Chekhov, and they all created great women's roles.

You know, what I like about 'The Family Tree' is it's a kitchen sink movie; you can't think of anything that it doesn't either throw into the story for conflict or poke fun at or attack, even, so I like it.

I love Chekhov. I could go on all day about him.

I'm a big reader, so when I was in 'Pride and Prejudice,' or, like, in Poirots and Marples, those are all books that I loved, and so it was really exciting for me to inhabit characters from literature that I knew and recognized.

'Arcadia' is obviously a play that's got interesting things in it that are perhaps quite hard to grasp.

I would love to take a crack at 'Long Day's Journey Into Night.'

I fell in love with 19th-century Russian plays.